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One by one, a group of strangers find themselves kidnapped
and brought to a strange place. Chained up and hooded, they learn that their
captor intends to release them, provided they pass a few tests. Every day they
must face and kill a shark, or die trying.

I love movies that are so bad that they’re good. A good
example of that, from the creature feature category, is Sharknado. Shark Week,
however, was so bad that there was nothing good about it. That’s a very
different thing. Not every B movie is going to fall under the “it’s so bad it’s
good” category.

The problem with movies coming from The AsylumProduction Company
is that they will produce anything B movie-ish. They don’t make a distinction
between bad-bad and good-bad. That means they have a terrible reputation with
movie fans. They’ve produced roughly 160 movies, most do tend to fall under the
“terrible” category, but there are a few gems. We all know I enjoyed Sharknado; I also enjoyed Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies among
others. Still, the bad is starting to outweigh the good.

This movie had terrible acting, terrible graphics, a terrible
storyline, and a terrible script (my brain is still twitching from “a lot more
easier”).

Don’t put yourself through the agony of watching this crap,
but try to keep an open mind about The
Asylum. Their movies don’t always
suck.

Gerry Lane is an employee of the United Nations. Although his
job used to entail going to dangerous areas for various reasons, he no longer
does that kind of thing. His primary focus is now his wife and two daughters. On
their way out one day, disaster strikes and they find themselves trying to stay
safe in a world of zombies.

I love Max Brooks. I read the Zombie Survival Guide twice. A lot of my closest friends are also
big Max Brooks fans. There’s nothing better than sitting around and debating survival
ideas for a zombie apocalypse. Most people were surprised when I didn’t rush to
see this film in the theaters.

I don’t remember why I didn’t go. To be honest, I think it
was money trouble. Whatever it was, I’ve been looking forward to Netflix
getting it and I got the bonus of both the original and unrated versions becoming
available.

The first thing I noticed was that the movie isn’t directly
from the book it’s named for. I don’t think that’s a terribly important detail,
though. World War Z, the book, is
kind of an anthology of first person stories. To try and convert that kind of
thing into a movie, we’d wind up with a very confusing horror-type version of New York, I Love You and The ABCs of Death. Trust me, nobody wants
that.

World War Z, the
movie, stuck to feel of the book. In this case, that seems more important to
me. Not only because it stuck to the core of its namesake, but because it was
easy to see inspirations taken from the Zombie
Survival Guide as well.

As the movie goes, I found it to be pretty good. There was
very little build-up before the big action started, but the transitions in the
story aided the addition of suspense.

There were a few minor issues, but I can’t really go into
them without adding spoilers. Without specifics, there were parts of the script
that I felt were a little off; as if it was almost easy to tell where the
different writers came in. I can only assume rewrites and budget issues contributed
to the problem.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – 67%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – 72%

Netflix’s Prediction for Me – 4.2/5

Trust-the-Dice Score – 3.5/5

The Random Rating:
R – For strong violence and implied rape scene

P.S. World War Z 2 has
a tentative release date in 2016. It is reported to be directed by J.A. Bayona
(Penny Dreadful, The Impossible) and written by Steven Knight (Closed Circuit, Redemption).